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With the Christmas shopping season off to a rousing start, state officials are hoping this will be the best season in years for sales taxes pouring into state coffers. The gifts being purchased at a brisk pace at malls and retail outlets from Danbury to Stonington will not only bring smiles to the faces of young children but also to the no-nonsense accountants who add up the state's tax collections. Across the country, analysts were surprised by the strength of the post-Thanksgiving sales as shoppers lined up outside big-name stores that opened late Thanksgiving night or before sunrise the next day. Nationwide, sales were up nearly 17 percent over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend,...

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With the Christmas shopping season off to a rousing start, state officials are hoping this will be the best season in years for sales taxes pouring into state coffers.
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